石油设备网讯 据路透社墨尔本报道，周二，法国道达尔及其合作伙伴与巴布亚新几内亚签署了一项期待已久的协议，该协议将允许启动一项130亿美元的计划，将巴布亚新几内亚的液化天然气（LNG）出口增加一倍。
由于液化天然气是这个太平洋岛国最大的出口收入来源，而全球对燃料的需求也在飙升，因此发展这个国家的天然气储备被视为对其经济至关重要。
道达尔的合作伙伴Oil Search公司表示，该协议将允许双方开始一项名为Papua LNG项目的工程和设计工作，该项目也涉及埃克森美孚，他们现在的目标是在2020年做出最终的投资决定，并在2024年的首次生产LNG。
道达尔董事长兼首席执行官派翠克·普尼安表示，该项目将进一步加强其在太平洋流域的地位，并确保其未来的LNG投资组合增长。
澳大利亚Oil Search公司原本希望与巴布亚新几内亚政府的协议能在2018年敲定，因为合作伙伴们在加拿大、莫桑比克、卡塔尔和美国都在进行液化天然气项目，以填补21世纪20年代初亚洲的供应缺口。
该协议在 2018年2月巴布亚新几内亚发生地震后被推迟，地震抽走了政府资源，并延缓了关于Papua LNG将为国内市场储备多少天然气等问题的谈判。
Papua LNG计划开发Elk和Antelope气田，以满足两个新的生产单位或生产线的需要，这两个生产单位或生产线将建在由埃克森美孚运营的PNG LNG工厂。
道达尔表示，Papua LNG项目的年产能为540万吨，其中包括两条LNG生产线，每条生产线年产能为270万吨液化天然气，并将释放超过10亿桶石油当量的天然气资源。
詹晓晶摘自路透社
原文如下：
Total, partners reach initial agreement on $13 billion Papua LNG project
France’s Total and its partners signed a long-awaited deal with Papua New Guinea on Tuesday that will allow initial work to start on a $13 billion plan to double the country’s liquefied natural gas exports.
Developing the Pacific island nation’s gas reserves is seen as crucial to its economy as LNG is its biggest export earner, while demand for the fuel is surging globally.
Total’s partner Oil Search said the agreement would allow the parties to start engineering and design work for a project dubbed Papua LNG also involving Exxon Mobil.
They now aim to make a final investment decision in 2020, targeting first production in 2024, Oil Search said.
Patrick Pouyanne, chairman and CEO of Total, said the project would further strengthen its position in the Pacific basin and ensure its future LNG portfolio growth.
Australia’s Oil Search had first hoped the agreement with the government would be sealed in 2018, as the partners race LNG projects in Canada, Mozambique, Qatar and the United States to meet an expected supply gap in Asia in the early 2020s.
The agreement was delayed after an earthquake hit PNG in February 2018, which sapped government resources and slowed negotiations over issues such as how much gas from Papua LNG would be reserved for the domestic market.
Papua LNG plans to develop the Elk and Antelope gas fields to feed two new production units, or trains, to be built at the PNG LNG plant run by Exxon Mobil.
Total said the Papua LNG project of 5.4 million tons per annum (Mtpa) capacity will consist of two LNG trains of 2.7 Mtpa capacity each and will unlock more than 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent of natural gas resources.
